Top U.S. Military Officer Calls Pastor Over Film

Reuters ^ | Wednesday, September 12, 2012 | Phil Stweart and David Adams

[kristinn]

General Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the U.S. military's Joint Chiefs of Staff, spoke with Pastor Terry Jones by phone on Wednesday and asked him to withdraw his support for a film whose portrayal of the Prophet Mohammad has sparked violent protests - including one that ended with the death of America's envoy to Libya

[bert]

Ha, Ha...... you mean Lt Col West?

[montag813]

(1) Jones did NOT produce this silly, amateurish film

(2) The film was merely used as a pretext...the terror attack was planned for 9/11

This guy is as much of a stupid dhimmi as Petraeus.

[muawiyah]

Gen Dempste has got to show some good faith in this ~ total burnover of Benghazi and 100 miles around would be a start ~ otherwise he’s just a mealy mouthed gay blade sticking his nose in where it’s prohibited!

[RedMDer]

With all due respect General, Go Sh*t in your hat, pull it down over your ears and GET OFF MY LAWN!

[muawiyah]

Jones did nothing. This was all planned earlier so Obama could fire back with a fleet of drones.

Somebody came up with the Jones thing and the MSM and the gay guy who chairs the joint chiefs of staff ran with it ~ far be it for that sissy to actually do something to the enemy. He's just naturally inclined to fight preachers!

[Chode]

what are we now... the french??? it was a 9/11 tribute attack!!!

[TomasUSMC]

“It’s never too early for the United States government to condemn attacks on Americans and to defend our values

ROMNEY FINALLY SAID SOMETHING WORTHY OF BEING PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES! IF HE KEEPS THAT UP HE WILL WIN.

[ThermoNuclearWarrior]

Pathetic piece of shit General destroyed his image, and any past actions that may have been respected lost all meaning when he publicly hurts the nation while acting like a cowardly scumbag. I respect those who have served, but I'm not one of those people who think it's a separate issue that can't be destroyed by other actions. If you serve your country respectfully, but then turn around and hurt it you lose all respect from me.

We need generals like Patton who was brilliant on the battlefield, and not afraid to state obvious facts about warfare that others were in denial about. He wasn't even accepted by political leadership back when we actually fought wars to win, so he wouldn't have a chance now. We can't have a guy who is respected by the common American stating the fact that Islam is the problem, although it's common sense among most Americans, but instead someone who will ruin his name acting like a scared cowardly child on his own, or because he was asked to do so.

Islam is violent. It wasn't hijacked by guys like Bin Laden. Those terrorist scum are following what the religion preaches as accurate as possible. It teaches murdering everyone who isn't Muslim because it's a religion with a prophet who was nothing more than a violent pedophile warlord. We should speak loudly about these facts, and we should not allow any Islamic immigrants into our nation. We should have literally given the people of Iraq and Afghanistan the chance to leave, convert, or die or never sent in ground troops. Christians act like we can't behave like that these days, but the religion wouldn't exist today without being defended and spread with violence, but it's not accepted today even though you wouldn't be Christians if it hadn't happened that way. It's a peaceful religion that talks about love, but recognizes the need for violence at times. It's not a murderous cult whose prophet raped kids and loved violence like Islam.

But just like we can't accept war for what it is any longer, and have gotten thousands of Americans killed trying to fight them in the stupid romantic fantasy we formed while blocking out the unavoidable brutalities that come with fighting war the way history has shown it must be fought, we have blocked out Christian beliefs that we don't feel comfortable with anymore. Many Christians can't accept the violence that had to happen defending and spreading Christianity for it to survive. That's why Christians are losing ground to Islam because so many decided to forget the parts that are harder for them to accept now, even though that attitude would have resulted in Christianity being an ancient forgotten religion that wouldn't exist today had that same attitude always been so common. Islam doesn't just need to be defied and defended against, but it needs to be attacked with brutally that kills or converts the violent animals. I hate hearing the word Islamic extremism because the entire religion is extremist. It's not just those who carry out attacks, but it's the vast majority of the religion that support and\or sympathize with those murderers. If any Muslims over here want to start rioting, or acting violent they have to be but down violently by citizen militias. It can never be allowed to get any foothold here. Any intimidation tactics here must be smashed sending the message they can't win anything here.

[LibWhacker]

Strikes at the very heart of free speech and it is beyond pitiful that Dempsey doesn’t understand that. YOU ARE FIGHTING TO DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION, numbnuts, and all the freedoms it guarantees to the American people. If I were president, this general’s stars would be on my mantle tomorrow morning and he’d be looking to start a new career at McDonalds so he could get some kind of retirement package going for himself. Because he wouldn’t get a recommendation from his current boss, that’s for sure.

[StAnDeliver]

"(1) Jones did NOT produce this silly, amateurish film"

Exactly. And the General doesn't understand that once it's posted, it's forever. There's nothing Jones could do if he wanted to.

[JudyinCanada]

Good grief. A 12 minute trailer about mohammed sends them over the edge? Don’t they have access to the blogs? They can read much worse! Utter nonsense.

It was all about September 11th and their dead leaders.

[peeps36]

This general should go back to the white house and ask Obama to reach into his back pocket and give him his balls back. He's a disgrace to the uniform. You would think a general would know that you can't appease islamic terrorist.

[Talisker]

Don't be ridiculous. Of course we have Freedom of Speech which is why General Dempsey had to ASK the idiot pastor to stop endangering American lives and did not ORDER him to do so.

Don't YOU be ridiculous! Does somebody have to write "INTIMIDATION" on a shovel and hit you in the face with it for you to get the point? This was the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs! Are you some kind of moron, or what?!

[onedoug]

So this is what is expected of our female troops, eh?

Who ordered that? Dempsy or soetoro himself?

[muir_redwoods]

It’s actually an awful film. It would be an embarrassment to a middle school drama club

[combat_boots]

So, Jones doesn’t get a religious exemption

[Fawn]

What? It wasn’t even about the damn movie....and who cares what this Jones think. Is everybody nuts???

[Terry Mross]

This is not only the highest ranking military member stepping on a citizen’s right to free speech. It’s also the freedom to worship as he believes.

The muslims have a right to practice Islam. Pastor Jones has the right to condemn it based on his religious beliefs.

[jwalsh07]

Who the hell does Dempsey think he is. First thing Romney should do as Potus is cashier his first amendment hating ass.

[holden]

And some of you thought our military would know how to disobey an illegal order from Obama. Ha! Scratch the JCS Chairnman off the list!

He needs to recover his honor!

HF